1. SKILLS, TECHNIQUES, and PROCESSES: Through dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts, students learn that beginners, amateurs, and professionals benefit from working to improve skills and techniques over time.
2. STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION: Works in dance, music, theatre, and visual art are organized by underlying elements and principles that guide creators, re-creators, and responders.
3. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: The arts are inherently experiential and actively engage learners in the processes of creating, re-creating, and responding to art.
4. COGNITION and COMMUNICATION: Individual cognition, self-expression, documentation, and communication with others are central to the arts.
5. HISTORICAL, GLOBAL, and FUTURE CONNECTIONS: The arts foster understanding, acceptance, and enrichment among individuals, groups, and cultures from around the world and across time; and this new perspective helps individuals appreciate existing works and create new ones.
6. AESTHETIC and CRITICAL REFLECTION: The arts actively engage the creator, re-creator, and responder in the processes of assessment and analysis.
7. ARTS and the ECONOMY: Arts-related careers and 21st-century skills gained through learning in the arts are transferable and integral to local and global economies.
8. RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS ACADEMIC CONTENT AREAS: Dance, music, theatre, and visual art are often infused with each other and with other academic content areas. Sounds good to me! Nice and simply put.Janet Drout
1. SKILLS, TECHNIQUES, and PROCESSES: Through dance, music, theatre, and the visual arts, students learn that beginners, amateurs, and professionals benefit from working to improve skills and techniques over time.
2. STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION: Works in dance, music, theatre, and visual art are organized by underlying elements and principles that guide creators, re-creators, and responders.
3. ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT: The arts are inherently experiential and actively engage learners in the processes of creating, re-creating, and responding to art.
4. COGNITION and COMMUNICATION: Individual cognition, self-expression, documentation, and communication with others are central to the arts.
5. HISTORICAL, GLOBAL, and FUTURE CONNECTIONS: The arts foster understanding, acceptance, and enrichment among individuals, groups, and cultures from around the world and across time; and this new perspective helps individuals appreciate existing works and create new ones.
6. AESTHETIC and CRITICAL REFLECTION: The arts actively engage the creator, re-creator, and responder in the processes of assessment and analysis.
7. ARTS and the ECONOMY: Arts-related careers and 21st-century skills gained through learning in the arts are transferable and integral to local and global economies.
8. RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS ACADEMIC CONTENT AREAS: Dance, music, theatre, and visual art are often infused with each other and with other academic content areas.
Sounds good to me! Nice and simply put.Janet Drout
On Wiggins' and McTighe's Powerpoint presentation, presented here in a PDF file, please focus on the following slides: pp. 14, 18 (Big Ideas), 19, 24, 32-37, 40, 46, 47, 57, 58, 66, 79, 80-83, and 91
Other sites to
review: review
?/a>http://www6.grafton.k12.wi.us/district/eclipse/essentialquestions/enduring.html
http://www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm?p=1678
(Click on center-of-page links titled: "Backward Design 101" and "Identifying Enduring Understandings."
http://pdonline.ascd.org/pd_online/ubd_backward/mctighe99chapter4.html
http://www6.grafton.k12.wi.us/district/eclipse/essentialquestions/enduring.html http://pixel.fhda.edu/hybrid/six_facets.html http://www.takingaim.org/components/transforming_standards.pdf